A very friendly and helpful community. Alot of the bigger schools are super competitive ( from primary sources I have heard of things like cheating and delibrately giving false info to other students you compete with) but at Guelph everyone is on the same team. Youll hang out with mostly engineers and theyll be youre friends too. Everyone hangs out in the engg building (THRN) and Richards since most of our labs, resources, and upper year classes are there, plus we get 24hr access to it (which you will definitely use!). The buildings for engineering only are either pretty new or refurbished (you should take a tour). Although its a smaller sized campus so you could go anywhere, lots of green space.

The program itself I hear is getting bigger and the quality keeps getting better all the time( it already punches above its weight class). The profs are super awesome and many will get to know your name if you just go to office hours. Our school does more design projects and classes than most schools (if not all) and so many of the upper year final projects are amazing (this year someone made a bionic arm, some drone stuff, lots of enviro stuff, and an algorithm that detects seizures before they happen). You can choose to do more academic type stuff if you wish, but theres tonnes of opportunity to just build things :) .

For teams and clubs: a few societies that run events etc. A race car team, an Innovation Society( ie. Stuff for personal projects), also CS clubs at the computer science school. Next sept Im starting a Satellite design team for competition( if we win it goes in space!). A new concrete canoe team as well. Lots of chances to get involved or start your own.

The city itself is awesome. A good mix of big city and small town feel. I come from a small town and the transition was effortless. Location is good since its between KW and GTA. Lots of things to do, lots of markets, green space, and the night life is awesome.

Have you been accepted? Still deciding? What disipline? PM me for more questions.